Elon Musk Lays Down the Gauntlet With TruthGPT, but ChatGPT Thinks That the Endeavor Won’t Be a Walk in the Park

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After making a number of stealthy yet decisive moves, Elon Musk has finally spilled the proverbial beans on his AI-related ambitions, and they revolve around a “maximum truth-seeking AI,” simply dubbed the TruthGPT.

NEWS: @elonmusk says he is creating a maximum truth seeking AI chatbot called “TruthGPT” that tries to understand the nature of the universe.

“An AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.” pic.twitter.com/hAeEzThqqK

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) April 17, 2023

In an exclusive interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk declared that he is working on an AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe and is, therefore, unlikely to “annihilate humans.”

This declaration comes after Elon Musk poached talent from DeepMind – a subsidiary of the tech giant Alphabet – and purchased around 10,000 GPUs from NVIDIA to train a Large Language Model (LLM) on the pattern of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Additionally, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter has registered a company in Nevada by the name X.AI Corp. These developments show intense interest on Musk’s part to corner at least a slice of the booming AI sphere.

Of course, we do not yet know what exactly Elon Musk means when he refers to TruthGPT as a truth-seeking AI. Is he referring to an AI system that is self-aware and capable of discerning truth from falsehood? If so, this would remain a pipe dream for a very long time. First, our current technologies do not yet allow for a truly self-aware AI. What’s more, truths are quite hard to quantify.